Word: vendors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third and final stage of a rumor's life, the information is tailored to suit the vendor's interests and emotional needs. Those who believe that McCartney is dead, for instance, are in part sublimating their fear of the grave. For whenever death visits another person, it must delay its appointment in Samarra with you. Frequently, the death of a public figure breeds a host of rumors about the supposed deaths of other public figures. Within hours after Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945, rumors falsely consigned General George Marshall, Bing Crosby and New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia...
...investigation is symptomatic of Washington's widening concern for consumer protection. Beginning in 1966, a tide of caveat vendor legislation has covered auto safety, truth in packaging, truth in lending, the inspection of meat, poultry and the labeling of flammable clothing. Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed some truth-in-naming rules for companies seeking to register new stock for sale to the public. Under the SEC's guidelines, stock issues with names that might mislead investors would be forbidden. Such linguistic legerdemain is becoming more and more frequent, the commission complained, particularly...
...public figures he liked least, The late Francis Cardinal Spellman became a red bird called Spellmanus Bellicosus, riding a missile and clutching an olive branch in his teeth. Lyndon Johnson appeared as a crocodile. Truman Capote swam in a murky Central Park lake as a swellfish (libris vendor...
...biggest adjustment, though, will be on the level of the individual. Now when the doctor practices his medicine, he does it for Israel. The bus driver drives his bus and the street vendor sells his oranges, for Israel. Israeli life requires that the first commitment be to the state. Yet one must ask what type of nation Israelis will produce when they begin to act for themselves...
...George ("Shadow") Morton, 26, is so nicknamed because he is likely to excuse himself from a business conference, ostensibly to go to the men's room, and not be seen again for four days. Raised in Brooklyn, he had "about 40" jobs (bouncer, ice-cream vendor, hairdresser) before launching his record career in 1964 with a hit song that he wrote in twelve minutes (Walking in the Sand). Now he produces the Vanilla Fudge, the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble and Janis Ian (Society's Child), is training three protégés at his own commune...